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PROPESRIOISAL CARDS. 11. KI. JOKES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, SLBBRTON, GA. Special attention to the collection of claims. £ljr SHANNON & WORLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ELBERTOK, GA. WILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF the Northern Circuit and Franklin county gSSySpecial attention given to collections. J. S. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. 0 'AT7 ILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS VV and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly £ —- L. J. GARTRELL, ATTORNEY AT L AW, ATLANTA, OA, "PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES CIR- J cuit and District C’o.irt3 at Atlanta, and Supreme and Superior Courts of the State. ELIiERTOK BUSINESS CARDS. tTjTTbowman^oo^ REAL ESTATE AGENTS EI.BERTON CA. WILL attend to the business of effecting sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS. Applications should be made to T. J. BU W MAN. Sepls-t( UNT CARRIAGES BUGGIES. J. F. A.TJ3LD Carriage Wandfact’r ELBERTOK, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OF 27 YEARS, He hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. Goed Baggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING. Work done in this line in t very best style. Tito Bojaf Harness TERMS CASH. Vy22-I v ~ J. 91. BARFIELD, THE REAL LIVE Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. DfetTCall and See Him. THE ELBERTON DRUG STORE H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always on band a full line of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of STATIONERY and PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER k ENVELOPES Plain and fancy, just received, including a sup ply ot LEGAL CAP. CIGARS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on band. F. A. F. KOBLETT, PEAeim MASON, ELBERTON, GA. Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK anywhere in Elbert and Hart counties. [je!6-6m W. C. PRESLEY, ~ HAHN 111 MAKER. ELBERTON, GA. Will make first class harness to order, war ranted, and at prices to suit the times. Will be glad to show specimens of his work to parties, and no harm is done if ho work is wished. Repairing Hone Promptly. F. W. JACOBS, HOUSE & SIGN PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, ELBERTON, GA. Orders S Icitod. Satisfaction Guaranteed. PEASE’S ~ PALACE DINING ROOMS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. The Champion Dining Saloon of the South IB INVITED TO CALL. THE GAZETTE. ESTABLISHED 1859. jSTew Series. CONFIDENTIAL. Mad ? lam ; if I can’t bite a ten-pen ny nail in two it’s because the nail is too hard, not because my teeth in not sharp enough. While other women have been buying cream lace hats, and making posy beds and traveling suits for the Philadelphia show, I have been in the agonies of house[cleaning. lam getting bald from wearing a turban so much, and what bair is left is the color of soft soap; my Lands are like dropsical mud-turtles; I have stretched up after cob-webs till there’s a corn on the end of every toe ; my shoulders are lame, my knees are stiff; it takes me ten minutes to sit down, and ten more to get up again, and I’ve borne it all like a martyr, and bad a pie for dinner every day, all because Augustus said he would help me with the chambers and hall; and this glori ous dune morning, with the lower floor as sweet as a bandbox, I was ready, the whitewash pail stood on front steps with the brush across it and a negro be hind it, when in l olted the lord of the manor and ordered up his white vest and buff shoes, he had got to go to the pigeon shoot, he and Sam. The ab ruptness, the perfidy, the bad grammar, all made me speechless, and be took ad vantage of the state of affairs and bustled off. Pigeon shoot, indeed! If it was a horse-race or an auction or a dog fight or anything reasonable, it would be fractionally endurable; but to see tall men and short men, and fat men and lean men, men with brains and men without, leave their farms, and shops, and stores, and wives, and troep off to see another rabble of men, qualified with the same adjectives, torture and mangle and kill a lot of poor innocent terrified little birds ! If any of the shooters miss h bird and hit a man*, I hope it may be one who tells lies to'his wife (doubtless it would). One thousand dollars in prizes, twenty-five cents to see and twenty five dollars to get to shoot; and this when the times are so hard that a farmer's wife “dasn’t” buy anything bet ter than an eight cent calico and the boys have got to go barefooted before the frost is out of the ground. Old Deacon Saintly, he went, and on ly last Sunday I heard him thank the Lord that He who ‘‘noted even the spar row’s fall,” would not forget him ; the next time he incorporates that into bis prayer, I would like to rap bis bald old pate with a broom stick, and remind him that this day’s record must be met some time As for Augustus Slack, no spar row or pigeon either will be booked against him; he can’t bit the side of a bain unless somebody holds the gun for him. I want the law amended.— Pigeon shoots are just as barbarous as bull-fights. Anyway, won’t somebody tell me why men must have so much more amuse ment than women ; clubs and matches, and races and conventions, etc., and if the old woman goes a quilting once a season the house atmosphere is blue for a month. No, I shall not get a divorce Mr. S. may go pigeon hunting, but he won't go wife hunting right away ; he’ll probably come home after milking is done, and call me “dear Emmy,’’ but don’t you be uneasy on my account. Np, I didn’t clean the chamber; I went calling, and told the neighbors just what I thought of it; then came home and sat on the back stoop and read the Free Press, every word of Bronson Howard’s Centennial letter, and went through all the lime and gypsum and coal and marble, felt indignant that the Britishers should so nearly eclipse us in minerals, wondered at the display of the Argentine Republicans, and came spat on this to wind up with: “We shall gradually work upwards from the miner al kingdom, and if tha ladies will have patience, we shall get up to something soon that will interest them by and by.” There, Mr. Howard, don’t you believe that the female mind isn’t inter ested in minerals—lots of us are hard headed and practical. Next, this intelligence spreads itself before me! The Congregationaiists of the State of Michigan resolved: “That when a church of this association sends a body os a delegate to this body, it is the duty of this ass. (abbreviation) to receive such delegate.” “The name of a lady delegate was pre sented, but declined because it was thought to be contrary to the constitu tion.” Now, what was the matter ? She was a “body" and a -‘delegate’’ as specifi ed in the resolution, and why didn't they find if it was “contrary to the con stitution ?" But it is getting too dark to see to write, and there comes Augustus with a big bundle of something that looks like dry goods.—[Free Press. Moved On.— A man’s horse balking and refusing to move, he adopted the ingenious device employed once by a canal captain —he built a small fire under the animal. As soon as the horse felt the heat, he moved at once. He advanced sufficiently to bring the car riage over the flame, and there he paused, to the edification of a crowd of observing citizens, and to the great sat | isfaction of himself. The firo 'fa's quenched without the aid of the depart ment. The individual who was accidentally injured by the discharge of his duty is 1 still very low T . ELBERTON, GEORGIA, JUXE 21, 1876. GEN. COLQUITT AS A GRANGES. In response to a query by a writer in the Augusta Constitutionalist, Gen. Col quitt makes the following reply : Yes, I am a Granger, an earnest Jone, approving heartily and without stint thp great and pure purpose of the Order. Certainly as I understand that purpose it is not to ignore “all other callings, professions and business of life save this one,” nor is it makiDg an effort. to “blot out all the business of middle men in the country that it cannot compass or con trol,” nor to establish that sort of direct trade with “foreign nations” which would prove a “detriment to its former friends and country.” But the sort of Granger I am seeks the real good and prosperity of our entire people and country by re forming and advancing that interest upon which rests every other. Depres sion rules the hour, every business and profession droops first of all things be cause our husbandry is unprosperous. That languishes because of the unthrifty methods of cultivation, and habits of management and economy; because it is made to bear burdens it should not bear in justice to it, and cannot bear. Some of these burdens consist in great and useless circuity in buying and Bell ing—an enormous usury from credit in stead of cash purchases, and a superflu ous number of agencies which business custom rather than legitimate demand has fastened upon our trade. We can no more handle crops without agents than we can raise them without hands, and I am no witness that the enemies of the Order can call to establish the ab surdity that seme would charge us with in the alleged attempt to do this. But then wo know to our cost and the cost of every other cognate interest, that a farmer’s labor cannot bear the tariff w’hich unnecessary agencies and a round about road to market exact. To cheapen the way to the ship, and receive our re turns as all sane men wish to have theirs, with a fair commission, as a fair trade shall demand, are among the leading ob jects of the Order. As to our efforts in the line of direct trade, we think they are so obvious and strikingly just and patriotic as to challenge the respect of the entire community. We can never be made to believe that our people are benefited by deflecting the course of trade from a direct line to Europe, and at the cost of thousands of miles of transportation, and annual millions of extra expense. Our own sea ports are made bare of shipping, that a strange self denial and forgetfulness allow to sail with enriching cargoes into other bar hors. The people in the South, who live by agriculture, have made but feeble efforts heretofore to defend themselves i against useless and unjust hindrances simply because we never could devise an effective organization whose agency could relieve us. We believe at last that in the Grange we find this organized pow er. Every other profession or pursuit has its guild, why should we not have ours ? Our calling as tillers of the soil has too much glorious purpose in it, and is kept too amicable by our close sym pathy with mother earth for its members to be brought in hostile array against any class of good and sociable people. We are not in this attitude and it is only misconception of our object or unkind misrepresentation of it, whioli.could in duce the belief that we are. Our rubric holds us to industry, economy, cash trade, and as few intermediaries as pos sible. Direct trade is a logical sequence from such premises as these, and when we add that the Order enjoins fraternity, “peace on earth and good will to men,” can the most captious see any thing here to blame ? With high regard, lam Yours, truly, A. H. Colquitt A MAGNIFICENT JEWEL. Washington Republican: A pleasant episode occurred at the sanctuary of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Free and Accepted Masons on Wednes day night. This was the presentation of a magnificent jewel to Gen. Albert Pike, the sovereign commander. The presentation was made by Gen. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, in an eloquent and touching address, to which Gen. Pike feelingly responded. The jewel is com posed of a gold double-headed eagle, studded with two hundred and sixty di amonds. In the center of the eagle’s heart is a large amethyst in the form of a triangle, in which is inserted the fig ures “33,” in gold. Over the head of the eagle is a crown composed entirely of rubies and diamonds. In its talons the eagle holds a flaming sword of gold from which is suspended a scroll bear ing the inscription, “Deus meum que jus ” The cost of the jewel was S9OO, and in design and workmanship is beau tiful and artistic. The presentation was made in the presence of over fifty mem bers of the Scottish Rite from all parts of the United States. A grand banquet followed, during which the greatest jol lity and good humor prevailed, and a most enjoyable and pleasant evening en sued. Potatoes.— Editor Sourtbern Cultiva tor: As this is the potato patch month, it may not be amiss to call the attention of your readers to this, that the early planted and made potatoes do not keep well for seed or winter use. Slips put out in June late or even July, make best seed and easiest kept. Try it, and you’ll find plenty of potatoes (if properly cared for) to bed next spring.—“Sox,” La- Grange, Ga., May ’76. SUIT FOR TWO MILLION DOLLARS BROUGHT AGAINST JACOB ThOMPSON. A few days since, Hon. L. Q. C. La mar, of Mississippi, and Hon. Casey Young, of Tennessee, called upon Sec retary Chandler and presented the fol lowing letter: The Ebbitt House, Washington, D. C., June 1, 1876. Hon. Z. Chandler, Secretary of the In terior: Sir—Some person has sent to my ad dress at Memphis, Tennessee, the Eve ning Star, published at Washington, 22d May, 1876, with the following paragraph marked: “Secretary Chandler denies the pub lished statement that he intends, if the Senate shall decide that it has no juris diction, to recommend to the House the impeachment of one Thompson, who was Secretary of the Interior before the war, for abstracting more than $700,000 of the public moneys. He admits hav ing made the remark, but only as a joke. He says, however, that there is no doubt as to Thompson’s guilt, and that he is wealthy enough to replace the amouht to the Government and should be made to do it.” I have neither the right nor inclina tion to act upon the assumption that the statement in this paragraph is au thorized by you or justified by anything you have said. Permit me, therefore to call your special attention to the arti cle, and respectfully to enquire of you if it does represent yon truly. Please give me as prompt a reply as your con venience will permit. Your obedient servant, J. Thompson. The only reply to the above letter was service of process upon Mr. Thornp son, on the 9th, of a civil suit to recover one million dollars, principal and inter terest of the bonds stolen, and the amount received by the defendant, from the Confederate States of America, and which is alleged reverted to and be came the property of the United States —one million of dollars with intorest. Mr. Thompson says this suit is to make him pecuniarily responsible for the dis honest acts of a clerk. Soon after the bonds were abstracted, a Congressional committee was appointed, of which Ros coe Conkling was a member. The com mitt<V ?xc nerated Mr. Thompson of all blame. The report myttr “Ttm cpramft tee deem it but just to add that they dis cover nothing to involve the late Secreta ry, Hon. Jacob Thompson, in the slight est degree in the fraud. The Secretary should, perhaps, have exercised a more watchful guardianship over the stock, and the movement of his subordinates.” None of the committee agree politically with Mr. Thompson. Mr. Chandler claims that the Confed erate archives in possession of the gov ernment show that Thompson held some unexplained balances of the Confederacy, which shouldbe’paid to the United States. Mr. Thompson has a receipt given him by the Confederate Government. This Buit may put Mr. Thomppon to some ex pense and trouble, but nothing else is apprehended. In the suit the sth count charges that the defendant, on the 20th day of Au gust, 1866, received the sum $1,000,000, being the amount received from the so called Confederate States of America, and which said sum reverted to and became the property of the plaintiff, which he retained and did not pay over to plaintiff. The suit is for two million —one with interest from 1857, the other from 1866. For The Gazette. Dear McCarty: Tbeagricnlturhlcom munity, as well as those persons seeking a living by other modes, will be grate ful to you and your Hart county depart ment if you will in each issue of your paper, give your readers a definite re sume of the crop prospects within tbe limits of your respective counties. Such information will be valuable to the pub lic at large, but especially so to such as myself, who still cling to the places of our birth the dearest spot to us on earth. Local events transpiring among your people are matters of great interest to us, we do not desire to forget or be for gotten by the companions and friends of those early days. Crop statistics are exceedingly valuable to the general pnb lie and the county papers, by a little judicious care, can make themselves most valuable in this way. The farming public are now rejoicing in tbe harvesting of the finest and larg est oat crop ever produced. In my opinion the oat crop is destined to be a gold mine to the farmers. I hav%been so impressed with its importance that I have made many and close enquiries re garding the best mode and time of plant ing this crop. Every large produoer I have conversed with agree with perfect una nimity that the real, genuine rust-proof Bpecies is the only certain and sure crop. When sown in September or October, it is as sure a crop as black berries ; in fact it has not been know to fail—September being preferable to October. Many South Carolina friends sow the seed even in August in their cotton fields, running a barrow in the middle of the row, and this seems a favorite mode through September. In the vicinity of Ninety-Six, Greenwood and Liberty Hill, the usual yield is from thirty to fifty bushels per acre on fair uplands. These oat producers claim that oats can be produced at a cost of not exceeding fif teen cents per bushel, and that it can bo made to take the place of corn to a very Vol. V.-No. 8. great extent. Oa ( s sown as above will make a fair crop even on our poor worn* out fields, where the yield in corn in or dinary seasons does not pay for the cul tivation. Our farming friends have shown in the past that they cannot be deterred from planting large crops of cotton, I am aiming to suggest to them that bountiful crops of oats can be made to take the place of eorn to a great ex tentent for feeding purposes, and that this crop interferes but slightly with the production of cotton. Therefore allow me to enjoin upon the farmers just to try this experiment of sowing a large crop of oats next September and Octo ber. Don’t fail to do so, and you will findjthat you have laid the corner stone of future prosperity. I am strong in the opinion that this crop is not properly appreciated. I get my impressions en tirely from strong minded, clear headed farmers, whose experiments in this busi ness, if published would go further to awaken the farmers to their interest, than anything I can write, but they are loth to wiite or publish as a rule, and hence others must make the effort. Every intelligent farmer knows that the barren hills of South Carolina and Geor gia do not pay when planted in corn without fertilizers, and hence they are planted in cotton. My proposition is, that these lands sown in oats in Septem ber and October will pay and pay hand somely. Very truly yours, Emanuel. THE OEDEE OF THE SUN. Saturday evening there was organ ized in this city, at a basement office on State street, a branch of an organi zation, Anti Roman Catholic in its char acter, that from present indications, is likely to send its ramifications all over the county. The new Phoenix is known as the society of the order of the Sun, and sprung up, out in Nevada, into fully equipped organization within a few months. Its first inception dates back perhaps half a year; but for some time it existed in secret, and hardly more than a handful of people were initiated into its mysteries. The origina tors seem to have been fathered by a few prominent and very wealthy Protestants, who had become disgusted with the in adequate means at their disposal for combating the rapid progress of Roman ism. Their scheme was to frame a con stitution that would win over all shades of Protestants and thus form a solid battle array against their enemy. After mature deliberation it was determined that the organizatieu should he semi military in its character, which it was believed would give tbe undertaking a fascination not found about the ordinary secret society. The plan at once sprang into great favor in the silver State, and a numerous membership was soon en rolled. One of the strongest obligations by which a member is bound in the ritual is to oppose every Roman Cath olic candidate for office. The state where it originated having been thoroughly cafrvassfcd, a state com mander set out on his travels to establish the society elsewhere. Tho greatest success was found among the Protestants of the Pacific coast, and flourishing branches started up as if by magic all over California. Great success continues to await the state commander in every stopping place on his journey eastward. In Illinois, Mr. N. C. Nelson, a leading Odd Fellow, was enrolled as state com ffiander, and it is this gentleman who is now working the scheme in these parts co briskly. He visited Chicago last week, and began laborß immediately. At his some twenty citizens con gregated last Thursday evening, and formally proceeded to inaugurate a, “Chicago Grand Body.” This confra ternity, as yet so imperfectly understood in all its designs, is made up of com missioned officers Buch as state general *, majors, colonels, paymasters, sergeants, etc. Privates and non commissioned offi cers belong to “subordinate” bodies. The members of the more dignified body are all of go ahead, aggressive characters, and it is known that they are strenuous ly engaged in pushing the organization vigorously. They hope, as their first active movement, to absorb the mem bers of the American Protestant asso ciation of this city, now on the point of disbanding. To further this last purpose it was that the basement gathering of Satur day night took place. A membership of thirty was secured during the even ing in a few minutes, and nearly as many more conditionally handed in their names expecting to formally unite in a few days. By the end of six weeks, it is believed by the conductors ef this novel association that as many as a dozen branch subordinate bodies will have been recognized in regular stand ing in this city, embraceing a total broth erhood of not less than 1,000. [lnter Ocean. A gentleman in this city has a pair of pantaloons which were worn by one of his ancestors a hundred years ago. They are made of homespun cloth, except the seat which is of thick leather. It is in ferred by this that the original owner was a book agent.—[Norwich Bulletin. Unsatisfactory. —Anxious Lover: “Does your sister Annie ever say any thing about me, sissy f” Sissy : “l’es ; she said if you had rockers on your j shoes, they'd make such a nice cradle for my doll.” ' THE TWO-THIBDS RULE. The old democratic rule of requiring in convention a two thirds vote to make Domination of candidates for president and vice-president was not without its uses. Doubtless it sometimes saved the party from defeat. Particularly the rule had the effect to prevent the nomination of a man who, though prominent in his party and strong enough to carry the majority, yet was stubbornly opposed by a powerful minority, whose lukewarm ness in case of his nomination would have proved fatal to his success before the people. The democratic party sev eral times succeeded by throwing over board their ablest leaders and nominat ing compromise men! But political affairs have undergone a great change in this country since tho war. What was wise policy in party contests twenty years ago might be the height of folly in this day and tim®. Previous to the war political parties stood upon their principles and fought upon their platforms, and the man who was in the way of success simply had to get out of it Then they were thoroughly and compactly organized and the masses were accustomed to vote the ticket and for any unobjectional individual for president, no matter how obscure he might be. It only required that there should be no active faction opposed to the nominee. But now we are living under new skies. r are no times for a compromise nominee in the demo cratic party—for the tertium quid or a figure-head of a candidate, so negative in character as to be obnoxious to not even to the ring-thief or the bribe-taker. On the contrary, the party needs a man who is not only a platform to himself but who is also positive and aggressive in his line of public policy, and whose name would be the symbol of the ideas for which the democratic party now con tends. Such a man in nomination would of himself be a tower of strength with the people, and if any such there be, his nomination at St. Louis should not be put in jeopardy by the adoption of the tfnto thirds nil®, which would but bar tho strong men of the party and let dovm the gap for pigmies. The action of tbe Ohio democratic State convention in adopting an inflation platform and proposing old Mr. Allen for president sufficiently indicates that the folly of a certain faction of the party may give great trouble at St. Louis, and if strong enough they may virtually wind up the canvass in the convention by presenting a ticket and a platform which would be nothing short of an absurdity. But such a result is scarcely possible. The sympathizers with the Ohio movement, however, though too weak to rule the contention may be enough to embarrass the majority and prevent the right nomination, if they be permitted To fight under the two thirds rule. So in the best interests of the party, and to prevent a great and needed movement from dwindling into a farce, the nominating convention will but do its duty to the country by adopting the majority rule for all its proceedings. This would have been proper even if Ohio had not spoken.—Danville Register. HIVING SWARMsIn HIGH TREES, One of the most difficult things in the experience of all young bee keepers is runaway swarms, and swarms which seek the highest bough in any of the large apple or pear trees in the neighboring garden. In the case’of runaway swarms, follow them if you can ; but in reference to the swarms in a high bough, this is not so difficult a task as may appear at first sight. I watched with much interest a cot lager’s wife recently hiving a swarm up on an apple bough. I tendered *o advice, but simply watched all herjopera tions, which were simple enough. She procured a common potato or half-meas ure hamper, and fastened it to the top of along pike; then holdingitbeneath the swarm, shook the bough as vigorously as poasible under the circumstances, and brought her swarm down safely. They afterward quietly entered the hive. This was a rough way of hiving. I hope none of your readers will follow her example. I have used for some time for this puipose a bag made of stiff black leno, stitched. Around tho mouth I attach a little very thick wire, to prevent it closing when being used. The bag is then fastened or nailed near the top of a long pole made of deal wood, about nine feet in length and two inches in thickness, or like a clothes prop; but at the summit, about six inches above the bag, I nail a bit of wood to prevent the pole from splitting, as well as to act as a hammer to beat or shake the bough en which the Bwarm is settling. To the wire ring, if desired—although it will act far better without—a string may be tied, and held in the had of the opera tor, and "when the bees are shaken into the bag, by pulling the cord they aw prevented from escaping. 1 make use of it thus: Having got it in readiness, when the bee* are observed to begin clustering, of course th® first thing to be attended to is the hiv®, and table on which they are to be 'placed for a few minutes after hiving, before they are finally removed to their permanent stand Then suddenly shake the bough with the end of the pole. Tbe bees will drop into the bag. Very few will be left on the branch after a vigorous shake. Slowly bringing them down to tbe table, hold the bag for a few min utes beside the hive, which should be slightly raised on the side nearest the bees, to allow of free ingress. The bees, seeing a homo in readiness, will not be long in taking possession of the new tenement. Ycu need not fear securing the queen at the first shake ; and if any of the bees are at all disposed to take refuge again on the bough, lay across it a smoking or smouldering rag, which will quickly drive away every bee to the hive below. The table should be placed beneath the tree, if possible. It will not take long to hive themt persuading them to settle in the new home, and removing them to the stancj, in fifteen minutes. In half an hoar afterward they have’eommeueed working as if nothing had happened.